Draughts Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do,… — John Burroughs
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy… — George Arnold
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred… — Plato
I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large… — Frederick Locker-Lampson
He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and… — Evelyn Waugh
Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered… — Garry Kasparov
At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And… — Geoffrey Chaucer
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our… — Michel de Montaigne
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate… — Edgar Allan Poe
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. — Richard Lovelace
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and… — Leon Panetta
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what… — Charlotte Bronte
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers… — Alexander Pope

Who Wrote These Draughts Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 Draughts Quotes as follows: